Faculty Profile

Jim Dunn

Professor, Department of Health, Aging & Society

Senator William McMaster Chair in Urban Health Equity

Director, McMaster Institute for Health Equity

Dr. Dunn’s work investigates the impact of housing and neighbourhood interventions on healthy child development. The Regent Park Housing and Health study examines the impact of the demolition and reconstruction of social housing in Toronto’s Regent Park on adult mental health and healthy child development, and is funded by the MacArthur Foundation and CIHR. In a somewhat similar study, he is investigating the impact of receiving subsidized housing on adult mental health and healthy child development in Hamilton, Halton, Peel and Toronto. Funding is from CIHR and CMHC. Through his Chair program, he is working on explaining neighbourhood change in EDI scores in Peel and Hamilton, and for the latter, investigating the impact of Hamilton’s Neighbourhood Action Strategy on EDI scores in the future.

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Research Interests

Education, Memberships & Certifications

Ph.D., Geography, Simon Fraser University, 1998

M.A., Geography, McMaster University, 1993

B.Arts.Sc. (Hon), Arts & Science, McMaster University, 1991

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